On Monday 18 February 2008, Aaron Kulkis said:
If you were, say, an industry consultant, and a customer wanted to migrate from Windows to KDE, could you tell that customer, with a straight face, that KDE 4 is, right now, or that by the first week of April, will be both stable enough AND configurable enough to use in a business environment?
To make this industry scenario a little more realistic: Importantly, the first week of April is our decision point, not deep freeze. The KDE 4 packages would continue to be updated with bulk fixes from Subversion until the end of May, and critical fixes through the RC cycle. So you'd be using what you had in your hand to sell what's coming next, not what you have in your hand. Taking that further, your hypothetical consultant might well actually be using 11.0 for a trial installation at a customer, with the targeted deal being a big SLED11 sale sometime next year, which would then be a rock solid KDE 4.1.something. Trials using earlier versions are common practice and customers can see past superficial, temporary regressions. Will -- Desktop Engineer KDE Team -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org